Assignment: "Bugs or Insects" Aug 11 - 25

[Saralonde]

This week: "Bugs or Insects". Take a look in your garden, or maybe your house, and see if you can find a tiny critter to photograph. Something eating your tomato plants? Perfect opportunity to grab your camera! Spiders, ladybugs, ants, butterflies, bees, or any other creepy crawlies will do. Try using a macro, extension tubes or close up lens, or perhaps take a shot a bit further away and show the environment around your subject, too. Point and shoot cameras often have wonderful macro settings if you don't have a dedicated macro lens. Some things you will need to keep in mind: patience (breezes blow, insects do not pose), tripods (shooting closeup requires a steady camera), time of day (early morning and late afternoon are good times to look).

A few things to read:
Beautiful Bugs
Tips and tricks for insect photography
Macro Photography: Mosquitoes Emerging

Personally, it was when I took my first closeup picture of a dragonfly that I got really excited about photography again after years away. So have fun with those bugs!


f/4
1/400
200mm
ISO 200
Taken July 6, 2010

As always, rules:

Just a note to new posters: DO NOT start a new thread for your post. Please just hit the reply button at the bottom of any current post and put your image there.

1. Your original image you submit should be taken between the 11th of August and the 25th of August. Each week as an assignment closes on the Wednesday, it will be AUTOMATICALLY deemed *CLOSED* after 8am GMT (3AM EST) and any posts after that time will not be eligible for the assignment competition. Don't wait until the last minute to post!

2. Your post must include "Bugs or Insects" (to show your permission to count it for the contest) and the date the picture was taken (to show that it is a valid entry).

3. EXIF data should be intact. It helps if you can include the main points (including camera, lens, date taken, ISO, shutter speed and aperture) in the text of your message.

4. Only one entry per member (if you can't restrain yourself until the end of the first week you can post two or three separate pictures but your entry should be in a separate post and the only marked with the text above). It must be an original image taken by you.

5. Remember the cross-site image size limit (740px on the longest side).

6. If the image does not exist in post at the end of the contest, it is disqualified. If you modify anything on flickr and re-save the image then the link is broken and the message needs edited to link the picture again before it will be included in the contest.

For everyone, please do not repeat other people's photos by quoting them until the contest is over. If you want to comment on or discuss an entry you can use a link to it (or just delete the picture from the quoted text).

7. If you are looking for the winners of the mini-contest, please check the front page of the DPS blog Saturday late afternoon (EST) and here.

Next week: "Books". Maybe it's the lazy days of summer or the week I spent at the beach, but I cannot seem to stop reading lately. So why not combine photography and books for awhile and see if you can come up with a good book shot.

[gomommygo]

Faster than a Blink



Kind of creepy, but very fascinating too.

Canon Rebel XSI
8/12/2010 09:36:31
1/400Sec.
F8.0
ISO Speed 200
Lens Tamron 70-300mm
Focal Length 209.0 mm

[mseigafuse]

Taken on August 17, 2010
Camera Pentax K100D
Exposure 0.077 sec (1/13)
Aperture f/16.0
ISO Speed 800
Taken using Sigma 70-300 and a 2x teleconverter

[a_brewley]

Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 100 mm
ISO Speed 250
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
Taken Aug, 15th 2010

[jeadly]

I took this a few weeks ago, but can't stop looking at it.

[Rshuler]

Camera Nikon D50
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 200 mm

[ShenaLuke]

my boyfriend brought this bug home from work so i took a picture of it before we set it free.

[ksouza]

Taken Sat Aug 14

From Photography

[beachcomber]

Camera Nikon D40X
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 200 mm
ISO Speed 400
Date and Time (Original) 2010:08:14 10:58:23.

beachcomber

[ememfrick]

This is the first time I'm submitting a photo to DPS, I hope you enjoy it.



EXIF:
Canon EOS 7D
Lens: EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Focal Length: 135mm
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter: 1/250
ISO 100